China's Politics and Law University

Founded in 1984, situated at the foot of Sheshan Mountain--the famous scenic resort in Shanghai, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law (SHUPL) is known as the “garden institute”, with an area of over 72 hectares and floor area of 210,000 sq. m.
With the tenet of “all for students”, SHUPL attaches great importance to giving full play to students’ potential and individualism, offering every opportunity in academic innovation and free choice of learning, fostering their sense of social responsibility and capability to create and practice. With the key discipline of law, the university now has a multidisciplinary system composed of politics, economics, sociology, management, language and literature, etc. The university also has a team of faculty with solid specialized theory, among whom many are in close touch with the professional circles home and abroad. At present, there are more than 10,000 full-time students on campus, with various levels of postgraduates, undergraduates, associate-degree students and overseas students.

Shandong University of Political Science and Law (SUPL), located in Jinan, the historical and cultural city, is the only ordinary institution of higher learning characterized by centering on politics and law in Shandong Province.

The campus covers an area of 140.5 acres with 240,000 square meters school building.

With the total construction area of 12,100 square meters, the library has the collection of 920,000 print books and 3,054GB electronic books.

It also owns an information center for electronic document resources, which is the first network retrieval station for digital libraries of “Super Star”, “Shusheng” and “Springer Link of Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure”.

The library has been awarded as the Advanced University Library of Automation of Shandong Province.

The university has 1 provincial featured key discipline. Among all of the law subjects in colleges and universities of Shandong, the law subject in our university is the first one who has “Three Keys” construction projects at the same time.

Located in the time-honored city of Xi’an, Northwest University of Politics & Law is a multi-disciplinary institution of higher education characterized of law education together with a broad array of disciplines.

It is a base of great importance for training nationwide law talents, the centre of law studies in northwest China, and also a significant base for studies of humanities and social sciences in Shaanxi province.

NWUPL consists of two campuses, the Yanta Campus and the Chang’an Campus, with an area of 1347 mu.

It has set up 6 experimental and practice centers concerning legal practice, evidence technology, modern communications and so on with 16 basic laboratories, 72 field work centers, and with appliances for teaching and learning worth of about ¥60 million (RMB).

Both campuses have their own libraries, totaling 1.7 million collections including 3,000 kinds of works in Chinese and foreign languages and more than 20 digital platforms.

As one of the oldest political science and law universities in China, Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) developed from the Department of Political Science and Law at Southwest University of People’s Revolution which was founded in 1950, with Marshal Liu Bocheng as the university president.

SWUPL became the first University in Chongqing co-administrated by the Ministry and Municipality. On October 24, 2012.

The University has three campuses, the main in Yubei, the other two in Shapingba and Baoshenghu, covering a total area of 3136.17 mu. There are 14 schools.

The University has postdoctoral center for legal research and 6 provincial key bases for humanity and social science research. The University’s library boasts a collection of more than 4,200,000 books.

SWUPL has international exchange programs with over 60 universities from different countries.

Politics and Law Universities

Any law & politics university in China usually provides programs to train students for essential political and legal professions, and are transferable to many other professional fields. As the economy grows rapidly in China, the demand for talented law & politics graduates grows stronger. Therefore, more and more law & politics oriented universities have emerged in China.
Some popular law & politics universities in China are: Southwest University of Political Science ang Law, East China University of Political science and Law and Northwest University of Politics and Law.